Plan Baton Rouge is a program of the Center for Planning Excellence (www.planningexcellence.org). Plan Baton Rouge began as an initiative of the Baton Rouge Area Foundation to oversee and implement the Master Plan for downtown Baton Rouge. The downtown plan demonstrated the benefits of applying the principles of Smart Growth and leveraging public investment to catalyze new private investment. Plan Baton Rouge serves as a community resource to merge good design, best practices and sound policy for the development and sustainability of downtown Baton Rouge and beyond. 

Other Plan Baton Rouge projects


Old South Baton Rouge Strategic Plan

 

In 2005, Plan Baton Rouge has hired RKG Associates and a team of consultants to create a Strategic Neighborhood Revitalization and Economic Development Plan that identified strategies and implementation steps to generate reinvestment in the area, to strengthen and preserve the residential neighborhoods and to provide an effective guide for decision-making through community engagement.  The Strategic Plan coordinates and leverages HOPE IV investment, private sector investment, City Parish investment, and ongoing downtown revitalization. See the OSBR Plan link for more info.

Smart Growth Leadership Institute's Audit Report

 

The Smart Growth Leadership Institute completed the Policy and Code Audit Report for East Baton Rouge Parish and the City of Baton Rouge in August of 2004. The report is available as a series of pdfs for download:

SGLI Audit Pt. 1 (412KB PDF)

SGLI Audit Pt. 2 (88KB PDF)

SGLI Audit Pt. 3 (220KB PDF)

SGLI Audit Pt. 4 (320KB PDF)

 

The Smart Growth Partnership received presentations by committees at a meeting held on December 15, 2004. The final committee reports are below. These recommendations will be forwarded to the Zoning Advisory Committee and then to Planning Commission, and eventually Metro Council.

Draft TND Ordinance for East Baton Rouge Parish, Click Here

Street Design Committee Report, Click Here

Scorecard Committee Report, Click Here Draft Scorecard, Click Here

Design Standards Committee Report, Click Here

Infill Committee Report, Click Here

 

Riverfront Master Plan

In 2006, Mayor Kip Holden initiated a new Riverfront Plan hiring consultants Hargreaves & Associates along with sub consultants Eskew+Dumez+Ripple and Remson Haley Architects.

For more information, Click Here

 

 

What is Plan Baton Rouge?

Plan Baton Rouge is a blueprint for the re-development of downtown into a 24-hour city that will attract workers, students, tourists and local residents.

Plan Baton Rouge, a plan to renew our downtown, will transform downtown into a 24-hour destination where we will be proud to bring our visitors when they come to Baton Rouge. But more importantly, downtown will become a place we can all gather together as a community. As Plan Baton Rouge progresses, Downtown Baton Rouge will attract restaurants, art galleries, retail shops, and neighborhood service facilities neatly accented with attractive open spaces for all to enjoy together. The neighborhoods will thrive and maintain their unique character. Downtown streets will be attractive for the pedestrian and will flow with ease for those getting around by car. The potential for true rebirth in downtown Baton Rouge is amazing but the key to its reality is you - the voices of the citizens of Baton Rouge. We need your support. Plan Baton Rouge is your plan.

Copies of the plan are available at Dupre's Printing (225.343.1307) for $22.00 per copy.